Nick Santoleri is Chief Operating Officer of Rockline Industries, a global private branded supplier of personal care and household wet wipe products. He has been with Rockline since 2000, and became COO in 2020. Prior to that, he spent 20 years with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, in various engineering, product and manufacturing roles, spanning product lines from Consumer Tissue and Towels to Baby Wipes.
Originally from Pennsylvania, he moved to the Bentonville, Arkansas area from Wisconsin in 1999. His educational background includes an Electrical Engineering Degree from Drexel University, a Certificate of Management from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and Supply Chain Management study at Cranfield University in the UK, Northwestern’s Kellogg school of business in Chicago and Harvard Business School, in Cambridge, Mass.
Nick has served on the International Non-Wovens and Disposables Associations (INDA) Executive Board for the past 10 years. Is a member of Elevate's CEO Forum in Fayetteville, AR, and Chief Executive Corp - Chief Executive Network.
Phillip Mango has spent almost forty years in nonwovens, starting in 1981 with Air Products and Chemicals, where he was the Manager of the Nonwovens Group. Air Products was the major supplier of latex binders to major nonwovens used in wipes, notably airlaid and DRC (double recrepe). In 1991, he left Air Products to join Walkisoft USA as Director of Technology. Walkisoft was the largest global producer of airlaid at that time. Sensing a need for a more innovative, specialty oriented airlaid producer, Mr. Mango started his own airlaid business and designed and built a specialty airlaid line in 1997. This company, Airformed Composites, was one of the early developers of commercial multibonded airlaid for baby wipes, as well as other unique products and process advances. In 2000, Concert Industries acquired Airformed Composites and Mr. Mango. With Concert, Mr. Mango was the Director of Product Development. In 2002, Mr. Mango left Concert to start his own consulting business, Phillip Mango Consulting, LLC. Over the last 18 years, Mr. Mango has consulted extensively in the wipes market, technology, nonwovens and raw materials. He has authored numerous studies on flushable wipes, the global wipes market and technology, and other nonwovens related subjects.
Lorraine Crosbie is VP for Rockline UK responsible for all aspects of the UK Division. She has been with Rockline since March 2007. Prior to that she spent her career working within the health & beauty industry in Europe covering all aspects of new product development, sales and marketing for Global Brand Owners and for Private Label Brands. She is married and has 3 sons.
Seán Kerrigan is the Communications and Media Relations Director for EDANA, the international association representing the nonwoven and related industries, a position he has held since March 2017.
Based in Brussels, Seán is responsible for developing the internal and external communications activities to promote understanding and awareness of nonwoven products. Seán also manages communications programmes designed to promote specific sectors or products and also EDANA events. Seán manages several of the association’s Working Groups including the Communications & Advocacy SG, the Automotive WG, the Wet Wipes WG, the Durable SG and assists many other groups which there is a need for communications or PR support.
Before his role with EDANA, Seán managed global corporate communications projects for BDO Global in Brussels from 2013 to 2017. Prior to this, Seán managed communications projects for a variety of clients including The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Embassy of India - Belgium, Agrium Europe and Sinergy Communications .
Heidi Beatty has a successful track record as an Innovator and project manager. Over her 20+ year career, Heidi has launched products for some of the world’s leading brands as well as for some of the most entrepreneurial start-ups. As CEO of Crown Abbey, Heidi and her team helps a global client base across consumer, health care and nutritional categories to identify and commercialize new technologies.
After gaining a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of York, UK, Heidi worked with Johnson & Johnson for over 10 years across Europe and the US. From there, she has worked at both mid-size companies as well as start-ups, before founding Crown Abbey, nearly 6 years ago.
Heidi speaks & moderates at many conferences on a variety of topics, including women’s health products, innovation and project management tools.
Jason Finnis is a 30-year veteran of the hemp and natural fibre industries with hands-on experience in all aspects of the value chain. He has a strong background in fibre innovation and is adept at developing intellectual property that leverages the inherent qualities of bast fibres and brings performance and sustainability to the nonwoven and textile industries. Current Board member of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance
Jan O’Regan is Director, Nonwovens Marketing for Cotton Incorporated. In this capacity she works to uncover new opportunities for cotton to bring value to non-traditional market applications. This work includes leading efforts in strategy, marketing, business and technical development across global supply chains.
Professionally, Jan has many years of varied business experience, particularly in nonwovens and technical textiles. She has managed efforts in strategic business units in consumer and industrial markets, working with regional, national, and global teams.
Jan earned a BS in Textiles and Business, from Penn State, an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and continued her executive education through Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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Ashish Jajoo is the ‘President and Global Sales & Marketing Head’ for Nonwoven category – Birla Cellulose (part of Aditya Birla Group). Ashish has 18 years of experience in sales and marketing across industries like Paints, Retail, Apparel and now fibre. He has been in the current role for more than a year now. In the current role he is driving the new product development to leverage the opportunities presented by changing business environment, apart from the day today business. He completed his MBA from University of Delhi in India – in the year 2001.
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Electronic Engineer background with a 30 years’ experience in packaging, ranging from labelling to flexible packaging.
Always focused on Value Innovation projects to create new solutions, anticipating market trends and creating growing business differentiation & profitability
Lynda Kelly holds the position of Senior Vice President Americas & Business Development at Suominen Corporation. She has a long breath of experience in nonwovens with leading positions at First Quality Nonwovens and International Paper.
I have worked in Nonwovens & specifically in wipes for 20 years.
Started my career in Ahlstrom in 2001 transitioning to Suominen at the time of the acquisition.
Moved to Jacob Holm in 2018 & joined Berry in Dec 2020.
I have performed both Key Account & Product Management roles during my career in wipes.
I have a breadth of experience from dry & wet wiping for the professional market to wet wipes for multiple consumer applications.
• Profession: Engineer degree in Mechatronics and electrical Engineering, master’s degree in business administration
• Previous company: 2012 - 2020 at WILO SE in various positions, last function as Group Director for the Strategic Sales Management and Business Development
• Current position: Since 12/2020 at ANDRITZ Nonwoven as Sales Director Nonwoven (Spunbond and Wetlaid) in Krefeld, Germany
For several years, I have been acting as a top manager and director serving the airlaid paper nonwovens business. Among other things, I have been responsible for airlaid production, development, sale and delivery of small and large machinery as well as process line projects to North America, Europe and Asia.
Oliver Doering was born 1975 and joined the company after the University of Muenster in 2003
married and 2 kids
From 2005 Area Sales Manager
From 2020 Director Marketing and Sales Trützschler Nonwovens
Michael Trinkaus is a chemist by education. After he graduated from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1999, he started his career as a scientist and product designer at P&G, with subsequent assignments in Materials Development, and Process & Engineering, with global responsibilities in the P&G’s wipes and baby diaper businesses. In 2018, after 19 years of experience with P&G, he joined Mondi as Director of R&D and Innovation PCC. His main responsibilities include coordination of all R&D efforts for Mondi’s Personal Care Components business (films, laminates, nonwovens), Intellectual Property, as well as Product Safety.
His understanding of both sides – the product producer’s and the supplier’s – are a unique asset and great benefit for Mondi
